Monday, 10 October 2016

NOBEL PRIZE

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize
has been awarded for outstanding achievements in Physics, Chemistry,
Medicine or Physiology, Literature and Peace. In 1968, the Sveriges
Riksbank prize in Economic Science was established by Sveriges Riksbank
in memory of Alfred Nobel.

The
Nobel Prize is an international award which is administered by the
Nobel Foundation in Stockholm. The foundations of the prize were laid in
1895.

In this year, Alfred Nobel,
who invented dynamite, wrote his last will in which he left most of his
wealth to establish the Nobel Prize. Nobel was not just an inventor. He
was also a scientist, author, entrepreneur and pacifist who spoke
against war. The Nobel Foundation was established in 1900.

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It
manages the assets provided by Nobel for awarding the prizes. Each
prize includes a medal, a cash award and a personal diploma. The Nobel
Laureates also present their Nobel lectures before a huge audience in
the days preceding the award ceremony.

The
Nobel prizes embody a lot of prestige. In fact they are the most
prestigious awards in the designated fields. Except for the Nobel Peace
Prize, all the prizes are presented in Stockholm, Sweden, at the annual
Award ceremony on December 10. This day is also the anniversary of
Nobel’s death.

The Nobel Peace Prize
and its recipients’ lectures are presented in Oslo on the same day. The
reason why the awards are presented in Sweden and Norway is because both
countries were joined together in a personal union called the Swedish –
Norwegian union when Alfred Nobel died.

Mahatma
Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times between 1937
and 1948. He never received it however, and fell to an assassin’s
bullets on 30 January 1948, 2 days before the closing date for the 1948
Peace prize nominations.

That year
the Peace prize was not awarded as perhaps he had been the likely
choice. There is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics. The Nobel Prize has
been awarded to families too with the Curie family getting the most
(five) MUSTAFA IBRAHIM